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Calculation of your personal carbon footprintpart of Cutting Edge:Energy:Energy Activities This worksheet walks the students through the steps for calculating their personal carbon footprint. Additionally it helps them consider options for reducing their carbon footprint and the potential costs of those ...

Energy Gallery Walkpart of Cutting Edge:Energy:Energy Activities This is a cooperative learning activity using the Gallery Walk Strategy (strategy from the Starting Point Gallery Walk web pages) to enrich student understanding of the complex nature of solving our nation's ...

Energy and the Poor - Black Carbon in Developing Nationspart of Cutting Edge:Energy:Energy Activities In this activity, students will explore impacts of the use of wood, dung and charcoal in developing countries for fuel, producing black carbon. In-class discussion will generate a list of several broad topics, ...

Course Information Surveypart of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Online Teaching:Activities for Teaching Online This activity is a brief quiz to be completed at beginning of course that provides information to instructor about the internet access and computer resources of each student as well as assesses whether student has ...

Igneous Rocks Modelpart of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Interactive Lecture Demonstrations:Examples While working in groups to facilitate peer tutoring, students use samples of four igneous rocks (gabbro, basalt, granite, and rhyolite) to observe differences in texture, color and grain size and make inferences ...

Building Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs)part of Cutting Edge:Courses:Oceanography:Activities Educators with an interest in hands-on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines will receive introductory instructions on how to design, engineer and build a fully functional underwater ...

Density of Earth Materialspart of Cutting Edge:Courses:Oceanography:Activities This activity modifies a typical density laboratory exercise to fit within a lecture session. Students are asked to compare the densities of six different rocks/minerals collected from six different environments. ...

Virtual Rock Labpart of Cutting Edge:Courses:Introductory Courses:Activities Students use a website to identify rocks based on their properties.

Resource Usage Project and Journalpart of Cutting Edge:Topics:Energy:Energy Activities Students keep track of one resource (water, electricity, gas, etc.) they use for a 7-day period. They summarize their usage patterns, give opinions, and get some self-realization about their habits.

Magma Viscosity Demospart of Pedagogy in Action:Library:Interactive Lectures:Examples This is an interactive lecture where students answer questions about demonstrations shown in several movie files. They learn to connect what they have learned about molecules, phases of matter, silicate crystal structures, and igneous rock classification with magma viscosity, and to connect magma viscosity with volcano explosiveness and morphology.

JiTT-Scientific Methodpart of Just in Time Teaching:Examples A "Just in Time Teaching" question about he scientific method with follow-up class room activities and an exam question.

Conics and Reflectionpart of Merlot Math Pedagogic Collection:Mathematical and Statistical Models:Examples This is a discovery bases lesson on the reflective properties of the conics: parabolas, ellipses, and hyperbolas.

Why is the Earth Still Hot Inside?part of Earth and Space Science:Summer 2010:Activities Inquiry lab in which students study the rate of heat transfer as a function of size. Larger objects lose heat more slowly than smaller objects because their surface area relative to their volume is smaller. Relevant to the study of planetary formation, comparative planetology, basic thermodynamics, scientific inquiry, error checking, and the consequences of scaling.

Coke vs. Pepsi Taste Test: Experiments and Inference about Causepart of CAUSE Teaching Methods:Teaching with Data Simulations:Examples The Coke vs. Pepsi Taste Test Challenge has students design and carry out an experiment to determine whether or not students are able to correctly identify two brands of cola in a blind taste test. In the first ...

Reese's Pieces Activity: Sampling from a Populationpart of CAUSE Teaching Methods:Teaching with Data Simulations:Examples This activity uses simulation to help students understand sampling variability and reason about whether a particular samples result is unusual, given a particular hypothesis. By using first candies, then a web applet, and varying sample size, students learn that larger samples give more stable and better estimates of a population parameter and develop an appreciation for factors affecting sampling variability.

Independent Samples t-Test: Chips Ahoy® vs. Supermarket Brandpart of CAUSE Teaching Methods:Testing Conjectures:Examples In this hands-on activity, students count the number of chips in cookies in order to carry out an independent samples t-test to compare Chips Ahoy&#174; cookies and a supermarket brand. It can involve discussion of randomness and independence of samples, comparing two parameters with null and alternative hypotheses, and the practical issues of counting chips in a cookie.